I'm running Fedora 13 Linux, and sending mail to myself using mutt, and I can't seem to get procmail to run. Below is what my .procmailrc, ~/Procmail/rc.testing, and .forward files all look like. As you can see, they are very simple.
.procmailrc
HOME=/home/cory
SHELL=/bin/bash
PMDIR=$HOME/Pro...

I use a script which either activates an already running window of a program, or starts that program if it is not running. It uses different shortcut-keys; one for each of my most used apps — it checks for a unique window title format. This has worked fine, until today, when I decided to use t...

Suppose I do the following in zsh
cd ~
cd dir1
cd dir2
cd dir3
evince foo.pdf
zsh writes exactly the same in its history file.
Now my question is whether it is possible to have
cd ~
cd ~/dir1
cd ~/dir1/dir2
cd ~/dir1/dir2/dir3
evince ~/dir1/dir2/dir3/foo.pdf
in zsh history instead. I.e. t...

To designate Macintosh hardware, we now have a macbook and macbookpro. I don't think macbookpro should be a separate tag.
There's a new question which is about a non-macbook Mac. Is macintosh the right tag? Or powerpc? or both?
Should macbook be made a synonym of macintosh, or is there really a...

Everything is working with my serial port. I have connected my FTDI converter into my computer, set my COM port...
ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/wine/dosdevices/COM1
But now I would like to "clone" this port.
I am using wine to run u-center a GPS visualizer and I have a Linux computer running Ubuntu
Cou...

Hi guys!
I'm trying to build the PHP memcache extension (v2.2.6) for i386 (32bit) on my x86_64 Ubuntu 11.04.
./configure, uses config.guess by default (which outputs x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu on my system) but I want to override that.
How would I have to proceed?
Best regards and thanks in adv...

Say I want to grab the last 5
mentions of cron in /var/log/syslog.log looking over the grep manual it seems like I can't get grep to search in reverse. I can however grab the most recent occurrences.
grep cron -m 5 /var/log/syslog
Is there a reverse grep command I can use? :)

I have set up an alias in my .bashrc as follows:
alias u='cd ..'
All is well in my world... until I type cd .. and cringe that I did not use my incredible new alias. In fact, with this particular thing, it's very ingrained. Hard to change my behavior - I need serious intervention.
So, I natura...

I often see that programs specify pid and lock files. And I'm not quite sure what they do.
For example, when compiling nginx:
--pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid \
--lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock \
Can somebody shed some light on this one?

@Gilles : Funny. The question was whether you thought it was reasonable to retitle, and if so, opinions about retitling as "conffile (or config file) handling in Debian/Ubuntu". Making it (possibly) more likely someone interested might see it.